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...Manhattan lawyer, organizer and onetime president of the Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs. She opened the conference with the gavel used by Susan B. Anthony. To help settle the conference question, "How best can we serve our common cause-civilization?" came Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Authoress Mary Ritter Beard, and many a foreign notable. From England came Dame Rachel Crowdy. only woman ever appointed a section head (Social Questions and Opium Traffic) of the League of Nations, and Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, first woman member of a British Cabinet (Labor, 1929-31). From Japan came...
...blonde beauteous Katharine Winterbotham Buchanan, 49, married an Indian Oxonian from Madras named Kumar Jehan Seesodia-Warliker last May, Chicago society, startled, warmly debated the race issue. But the union outraged the bride's divorced husband, Thompson Buchanan, who had himself meantime displayed an adventurous spirit by marrying Authoress Joan (Cradle of the Deep) Lowell. He marched into a Kentucky court, asked and got custody of his 9-year-old son and namesake on the ground that Seesodia-Warliker, no Caucasian, was unfit to keep...
...rented seaside estate, Libby Holman Reynolds considered the town's eight policemen, then ensured the safety of her six-month-old son by engaging six armed guards and a Great Dane. At an early morning "lineup" in Manhattan police headquarters appeared Author Andre Maurois (Ariel; Disraeli) led by Authoress Fannie Hurst. When police offered to demonstrate the efficiency of their radio patrol system by having two policemen call on Mme Maurois in her hotel room, M. Maurois cried: "Good heavens, no! To have two policemen suddenly appear in our apartment would terrify her." Miss Hurst next took M. Maurois...
...write the life of a plain man with all the pomp & circumstance of a full-dress biography might seem a satirical idea; in unkinder hands than Phyllis Bentley's such a book might be a reductio ad absurdum of both subject and method. But Authoress Bentley's intentions and accomplishment are honorably serious. Though she sets the stage with such reverent care that the reader expects a notable if not tycoonish hero, the curtain has not been up long before alert spectators realize that the spectacle will be unspectacular. Authoress Bentley succeeds, however, in transfiguring her average...
...this tug-of-war between Baker Nicolas and Devil Benson, Authoress Benson calls it a draw. Many a reader will agree with her, will sympathize with her bewilderment when she confesses: "I'm uncertain . . whether the Count de Savine is editing me or I him. I am cleverer than he is-I think-but I am not sure whether I see more or understand more. Simply, I say more and I understand that I don't understand...